a real life version of PIXAR's UP

[Potoooooooo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ety-realizing-higher-plane-gets-arrested.html

A Canadian man was forced to jump from a lawn chair he attached to more than 100 balloons and then let take off in the air on Sunday.
Dan Boria of Calgary had hoped to fly the balloon chair across the city and crash the chuckwagon races at Stampede Park, but things began to go awry when he kept getting higher and finally looked down and saw a 747 airplane - flying below him.
That is when he tumbled out of his flying machine and managed to safely parachute down to the ground where he was arrested soon after by police.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It's not the first time someone has pulled this stunt. The FAA takes a dim view of such antics, especially in controlled airspace.

 

[Keith&Co.]

The FAA takes a dim view of such antics, especially in controlled airspace.

Yes, they do.
But how does the Civil Aviation Branch of Transport Canada view it? Dimly or what?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The FAA takes a dim view of such antics, especially in controlled airspace.

Yes, they do.
But how does the Civil Aviation Branch of Transport Canada view it? Dimly or what?

I would figure it's about the same in any developed country. Air traffic control normally works off transponders, not primary radar reflections. You're not supposed to be in controlled airspace with something big enough to be a threat (and that's only a few pounds--google the regs on sending balloons to the edge of the atmosphere) that doesn't have a transponder.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's not the first time someone has pulled this stunt. The FAA takes a dim view of such antics, especially in controlled airspace.

I found that to be the most unrealistic part of the Up film.

 

[thebeave]

I remember back when I was in college around 1982 or 1983, some guy did this. He brought a pistol up with him and shot the balloons one by one for a controlled descent. That may have been the time someone did something like that.

 

[Valjean]

Saw a guy do this at Burning Man. Pretty cool -- but he had the forethought to use a tether.

I don't understand how he intended to land at Stampede Park if he had no altitude control. He brought a parachute, after all. How could a slingshot and a few sandbags have slipped his mind?